Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Document type:: Monograph

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Title:: XII. Central America

Collection:: Economics Books

146 SELLING LATIN AMERICA rolling-stock. Engineers are making prelim inary surveys which will mean a material addi tion to the railway mileage here. Nicaragua maintains about 223 miles of railway which touch her leading cities. In addition to this, Lake Nicaragua, 92 miles long, and Lake Managua, 32 miles long, are used largely for transportation purposes and have a fair-sized fleet of steamers operating in connection with the railways. Panama has no railways of its own at pres ent, although $3,000,000 has been borrowed from New York bankers for the purpose of building lines throughout the Republic. The Panama Railway, owned by the United States Government, passing through the Canal Zone, and about 50 miles in length, may be considered as a portion of the railway system of the Republic of Panama for its citizens have the use of it for every purpose. Substantially all the railways of Central America are equipped with American rolling- stock and operated with but few exceptions under American control. It is extremely

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